Window-shade bracket.



A. H. WEIR & G. E. SMITH.

WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 11,1911

1,020,528, Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANDORAPN (0., WASHINGTON, h. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW H. WEIR AND CHRIS H. SMITH, OF EATON, OHIO.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, .ANDREW H. W'IuR and CHRIS H. SMITH, citizens of the United States, residing at Eaton, in the county of Preble and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vindow-Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shade roller and curtain brackets, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device of this character which may be readily adjusted to fit window casings of varying lengths and which is also adapted to be attached to door casings to support hangings or curtains.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described.

The improved device may be applied to window casings, door casings or like openings, but for the purpose of illustration is shown applied to a conventional window casing, and in the drawings thus employed for illustrating the invention: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a window casing with the improvement applied; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improved device with the casing in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse section enlarged of the improved device on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improved device detached; Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a modified construct-ion of the improved device; Fig. 6 is a transverse section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises in general two main body members slidably disposed one over the other, a holding device for supporting the shade roller and a bracket device for supporting a curtain pole. The several parts composing the improved device are formed with the main portions curved transversely and with the same transverse curvature so that when superimposed the parts engage with each other at their Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 11, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 637,873.

edges only, so that when the clamping devices are applied, the parts are firmly gripped together and rendered practically immovable.

The body portions of the improved device are represented respectively at 1011 and are precisely alike and struck up from the same die and curved transversely, the transverse curvature thus being the same in both of the members, the object to be hereafter explained.

At one end the member 10 is offset laterally as shown at 12, and provided with inwardly directed spurs 13, the latter extending in parallel relations to the member 10. The member 10 is also provided with a longitudinal slot 1 1. The member 11 is provided with a lateral offset 15, inwardly directed slots 16, and a longitudinal slot 17, the two slots 1 116 registering when the plates are superimposed as shown. The shade roller brackets or holders are precisely alike except that one is provided with an open slot of the usual form to receive a the journals of the shade roller. The shade roller holder is represented as a whole at 18, and includes a base portion 19 which is curved transversely and is preferably struck up from the same die which forms the body portions 10-11, the three parts 1011-19 thus having the same transverse curvature. The curtain pole bracket is represented as a whole at 20, and includes a base portion 21 having the same curvature as the other parts of the device. The base portions 19*21 are each perforated to receive a clamp bolt 22 having a clamp nut 23. By this simple arrangement when the parts 10111921 are superimposed and the clamp bolt inserted through the apertures and the slots, the four parts may be firmly clamped together and engaged at their edges only, as illustrated in Fig. 3. This uniform curvature of the parts is an important feature of the device and materially increases its efliciency and utility, as by this means the parts may be very firmly clamped together and all danger of loosening under the strains to which they are subjected when are then adjusted upon the members 11 to adapt the holders 1819 to the length i of the shade roller. The clamp bolt is then tightened to firmly clamp the parts together, the engaging edges of the uniformly curved members, as before stated, insuring the firm and rigid clamping of the parts. If the improved device is designed to be used only for a shade roller support, the bracket mem bers E202l will be detached and the three parts 10-1118 clamped together by the bolts. If the device is to be employed for supporting curtain poles only, then the members 18-19 will be detached and the members 101120-21 only employed, and the clamp bolt utilized to support the parts in position.

In Figs. 5 and 6, a slight modification in the construction is shown comprising a plate 25 having a longitudinal slot 26, and with perforated offsets 27 at the ends to receive the holding screws. In this modification the body portion 25 is transversely curved, preferably by the same die by which.

the other members of the device are produced so that when the parts 1819 and 202l are applied, and secured in place by the binding nut, the parts engage by their edges only, as shown in Fig. 6. By this arrangement the firm clamping of the parts is insured in the same manner as heretofore described relative to the structure shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured as all the parts are struck up from sheet or plate metal, and so arranged that one single die suffices for forming all of the parts which are arranged in engaging relations.

What we claim is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a plurality of members slidably disposed and curved transversely, the curvature of the plates being of the same radial lengths, means for connecting said members to a window, a curtain roller support, and clamping means operating through said members and through said curtain roller support.

2. A device of the class described comprising plates slidably engaged and adapted to be connected to a window, a curtain roller support including a lateral base, said plates and lateral base being curved transversely with the same radial length, and clamping means operating through said plates and base.

3. A device of the class described comprising plates slidably engaged and adapted to be connected to a window, a curtain roller support including a lateral base, a curtain pole support including a vertical base, said plates, lateral base and vertical base being curved transversely with the same radial length, and clamping means operating through said plates and lateral base and vertical base.

In testimony whereof, We afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW H. WEIR. CHRIS H. SMITH.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. SPAOHT, MICHAEL CAHILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

